PAHRANAGAT NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE

Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge was created by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1963 and consists of spring-fed lakes, wetlands, riparian habitat, meadows and desert uplands. The parks varied landscape is an important stop for thousands of migratory birds along the Pacific Flyway Migratory Route. The Pahranagat Valley is also the ancestral land of the Southern Paiute and Chemeheuvi native peoples and contains protected petroglyphs and sacred sites.

RPR Architects worked with park directors, regional USFWS directors, tribal representatives, anthropologists and field biologists to generate a park master plan. Through site visits, interviews, historical research and visioning exercises, RPR created an assessment report and a series of park maps that graphically represent important discussion points and summarizes the USFWS vision for resource management, recreational opportunities, future visitors center siting and the protection of sacred native sites.

CLIENT:      U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

SIZE:           5,382 acres